Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn was named the gubernatorial winner late this afternoon and state Sen. Bill Brady has conceded. Quinn, who took over after disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevitch got the boot, was strongly backed by Equality Illinois due to his broad support for LGBT rights. (However Quinn favors civil unions over full marriage equality.) Brady had proposed a constitutional …

GOP state Rep. Bill Brady has a slight polling lead over Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, who today predicted that civil unions could become legal in his state “by the end of the year.” Early this year, Equality Illinois described Bill Brady as having “supported or co-sponsored every piece of anti-gay legislation there has been in Springfield – from a constitutional …

Illinois state Sen. Bill Brady’s anti-gay bill just got shot down. Equality Illinois just announced that Senate bill 3447, which aimed to allow certain tax-exempt organizations to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and religion, is dead. The bill never made it out of a Senate Judiciary committee. In an email to supporters, Equality Illinois CEO Bernard …

Illinois is one of the dwindling number of states without a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. If GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady gets elected, he plans to correct that. The GOP gubernatorial front-runner Wednesday proposed changing the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriages, make it more difficult to pass state tax increases, impose term limits on lawmakers and overhaul the …